Right-hander Brandon McCarthy, who needed emergency surgery after being struck on the head by a line drive last season, suffered a seizure last week.

The Diamondbacks pitcher said Saturday he’s fine now and is hopeful it won’t push back his recovery from shoulder inflammation.

McCarthy was at a restaurant in north Phoenix with his wife, Amanda, on Monday night when the incident occurred.

After he slumped over in a booth, Amanda climbed across, pushed the table away and called for help.

He was taken to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, where a CT scan determined he had not suffered additional head trauma. He said he was put on anti-seizure medication.

Doctors told him he would have no physical limitations and that he could resume his rehabilitation the next day.

“I remember someone restraining me and telling me I had a seizure,” McCarthy said. “I don’t really remember much past that until I was at the hospital.”

McCarthy, pitching for the Oakland A’s, was struck on the head by a line drive by the Angels’ Erick Aybar on Sept. 5 and needed surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by intracranial bleeding.

He knew the injury could make him prone to seizures, but he had not had one before Monday.

He said Amanda “took control of the situation pretty quickly” at the Rock Bottom Brewery at Desert Ridge.

“That’s the story I’ve been told,” he said. “She might have dressed it up a little bit, but I’m pretty sure she was a superhero there. I know she’s talked about how some of the employees there were pretty damn good. Some of the people eating there helped, too. If anybody reads it or hears about it, thank you to them for helping and making it go as smooth as possible.”

The McCarthys spent a stressful night at the hospital after they were told he might require more surgery. But they got good news in the morning.

“The first night they thought they saw another spot of blood on my brain, where I had possibly hit it,” he said.

“That was the worst part, going to bed that night with the chance that I was going to have to have another surgery. But I woke up the next morning and they came in and said, no, that a lot of people had looked at it and said it was just sort of a shadow that kind of shows up, that it wasn’t anything to be concerned with.”

McCarthy thinks the worst thing that might have come from it is the soreness he feels in his left shoulder. He thinks it’s a result of his muscles tightening up, but he said Saturday he has been feeling progressively better.

He’s hopeful the incident won’t cause him to spend any more time on the disabled list than originally anticipated.

When he went on the disabled list last weekend in Chicago with right shoulder inflammation, he estimated he could miss four to five weeks.

“Once you have (the seizure), you resume life and I’ll take medication to hopefully avoid them going forward,” McCarthy said.

“We’ll play with that dosage for a while and see what comes of it. When I was in the hospital, they did a CT scan to make sure everything was all right and where it was supposed to be. Beyond that, there’s not a whole lot else we can do.”

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